Children in the UK got the opportunity to put their questions on Climate Change to senior UK Cabinet Ministers today, just days before the Copenhagen climate negotiations begin.
80 young people in the UK - including our Young Reporters Aakash, Annie and Leon together with Rose from Plan UK's Youth Advisory Panel- had an exclusive opportunity to share their views in a Question Time event with a high level panel of UK Ministers, including Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
Rose got a positive commitment from Mr Miliband to her question:
"Article 12 of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children and young people should have the right to participate freely in all matters affecting them. Climate change certainly affects children – especially in the developing world – so does the Prime Minister agree that his Government should introduce young people as advisers on this vital issue, putting young people right at the heart of the government?"
See: http://www.actoncopenhagen.decc.gov.uk/en/ambition/achievements/december/youth-question-time/
Aakash, Annie, Leon and Rose generated a lot of media coverage see:
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6029106 http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/environmental-change/question-time-debate-/ http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page21609http://www.actoncopenhagen.decc.gov.uk/en/ambition/achievements/december/youth-question-time
And Watch their one-on-one interview with UK's Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Mr Ed Miliband:
http://www.vimeo.com/7985595
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